F5 ménage à trois

MPC NY was invited to create a piece for the F5 Festival around the theme of love. Reminiscent of Paul Rand's IBM logo, our piece was an play on pictograms that spell love.

Surrounded by two video playback displays, the middle one hosted a custom interactive application built in Cinder (C++/GLSL), with graphics generated in real-time. The heart shape is negative space formed by a vertical particle flow. With the constraints of a veryshort timeline, we reduced the interaction point to a single button. A button press triggers the generation of more particles. When a limit threshold is reached, the heart explodes in a sort of celebration confetti.